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Greek Law

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Metics and the Athenian Phialai-Inscriptions: A Study in Athenian Epigraphy and Law
by Elizabeth A. Meyer
Beneath the shining world of the citizen of Classical Athens was the perilous shadow-realm of the resident foreigner, the metic. Emblematic of the status of metic was the requirement to pay a special metic tax, the metoikion. And if a metic failed to pay this tax, he or she would be sold into slavery, a fate that threatened no citizen of the classical Athenian polis. In the late fourth century BC the Athenians, in the face of widespread departure ...
Hardback. Price US$84.00


Avengers of Blood: Homicide in Athenian Law and Custom from Draco to Demosthenes
by David D. Phillips
In 621/0 B.C., the Athenians appointed Draco as their first lawgiver. His homicide laws, which alone survived the general recension of Athenian law by Solon (594/3 B.C.), remained in force down through the Classical period. This book traces the development of Athenian legal and social responses to homicide from the legislation of Draco to the time of the orator Demosthenes (d. 322 B.C.), with particular attention to the Athenian institution of ...
Hardback. Price US$89.00


Symposion 2007: Vorträge zur griechischen und hellenistischen Rechtsgeschichte (Durham, 2.6. September 2007). Papers on Greek and Hellenistic Legal History (Durham, September 26, 2007)
edited by Edward Harris and Gerhard Thür
The 16th Symposium of the Society for Greek and Hellenistic Legal History took place at University College, Durham University, from 2 to 6 September 2007. Fifteen papers were presented, each followed by a discussion. The papers collected in this volume examine archaic Greek law in comparison with the laws from other cities, law in classical Athens, epigraphic testimony from other poleis, and legal papyri. The symposium supports collaborations ...
Paperback. Price US$66.00


Symposion 2005: Vorträge zur griechischen und hellenistischen Rechtsgeschichte (Salerno, 14.18. September 2005)
edited by Eva Cantarella
The XVth Symposium of the Society for Greek and Hellenistic Legal History, held in Salerno in September 2005, was attended by thirty-three scholars from ten countries. The lectures encompassed issues ranging from private to criminal law, and from public law to legal procedures. The result was three concentrated days, during which the confrontation between different methodologies brought a number of new and interesting perspectives to the debate. ...
Paperback. Price US$70.00


Symposion 2003: Vorträge zur griechischen und hellenistischen Rechtsgeschichte
edited by Hans-Albert Rupprecht
The XIVth Symposium of the Society for Greek and Hellenistic Legal History took place in 2003 at Rauischholzhausen Castle near Marburg. About 40 scholars from Europe, Israel and the United States gathered for lectures and lively discussions. The scholars represented a wide and interdisciplinary range of specialities, including ancient history, economics and social history, classical philology and ancient history of law. As in the past, no general ...
Paperback. Price US$103.50


Women Crime and Punishment in Ancient Law and Society Vol 2 Greece
by Elisabeth Meier Tetlow
Crime and punishment, criminal law and its administration, are areas of ancient history that have been explored less than many other aspects of ancient civilizations. Throughout history women have been affected by crime both as victims and as offenders. Yet, in the ancient world customary laws were created by men, formal laws were written by men, and both were interpreted and enforced by men. This 2-volume work will explore the role of gender in ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price US$54.00, Our Price US$14.98

Griechische Papyrusurkunden kleineren Formats Neuedition: SPP III2 1-118: Quittungen, Lieferungskäufe und Darlehen
edited by Sven Tost
The publication of these three volumes marks the beginning of a project that has been launched by the Commission for Ancient Legal History of the Austrian Academy of Sciences aiming at a completely revised edition of approximately 1350 Greek papyri that ...
Hardback. Price US$179.00

Griechische Papyrusurkunden kleineren Formats Neuedition: SPP III2 119-238: Schuldscheine und Quittungen
edited by Fritz Mitthof
The publication of these three volumes marks the beginning of a project that has been launched by the Commission for Ancient Legal History of the Austrian Academy of Sciences aiming at a completely revised edition of approximately 1350 Greek papyri that ...
Hardback. Price US$131.00

Griechische Papyrusurkunden kleineren Formats Neuedition: SPP III2 449-582: Quittungen für die Getreidesteuer
edited by Claudia Kreuzsaler
The publication of these three volumes marks the beginning of a project that has been launched by the Commission for Ancient Legal History of the Austrian Academy of Sciences aiming at a completely revised edition of approximately 1350 Greek papyri that ...
Hardback. Price US$154.50

Antiphon the Athenian: Oratory, Law and Justice in the Age of the Sophists
by Michael Gagarin
Antiphon the Athenian was an intellectual, a speechwriter and an influential adviser to litigants in the Athenian court during the 5th century. Three of his speeches survive, plus three sets of Tetralogies (hypothetical paired speeches). Fragments of ...
Hardback. Price US$40.00

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